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How is white space handled in the XML object model?

April 26, 2017handled model object white XML

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How is white space handled in the XML object model?

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Sometimes the XML Object Model will show TEXT nodes containing white space characters. This can be confusing when most of the time white space is stripped. For example the following XML example: ]> Smith John Generates the following tree: Processing Instruction: xml DocType: person ELEMENT: person TEXT: ELEMENT: lastname TEXT: ELEMENT: firstname TEXT: The first name and last name are surrounded by TEXT nodes containing only white space because the content model for the “person” element is MIXED; it contains the #PCDATA keyword. A MIXED content model indicates that the elements can have text interspersed between them. Therefore, the following is also valid: My last name is Smith and my first name is John And this re